March2016

A short history before I start transiting the canal………. A Quick History Lesson On The Canal Building a canal that stretches 124 kms from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean is not a modern idea. It was first considered in 1500’s when the Spanish King, Charles The First commissioned a survey be carried out, but he decided it was an impossible task at

Before we travelled the Panama Canal we first had to check in to Marina Shelter Bay. Shelter Bay was the closest thing I have experienced to living in a nursing facility. Organised radio schedules each morning, organised games, organised swap meets, get together dinners, bring your own instrument for sing alongs and field trips to watch the

I used to count sailing legs by the hour, now I count by the day. Is it a two day, five day or four thousand nautical miles perhaps? Oh, how things have changed- in the early days of life aboard Miss Catana, a 50 nautical mile journey was considered a big day of sailing. Then there was